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True, but Traveller is a long established trademark for a space themed RPG. At least in the US, trademarks have to be defended or they can wind up being lost. And a difference of the one l is fairly subtle. Especially when being used for a title on a book for a 2nd space themed RPG. But like...

I have seen lawsuits over things less similar. A space themed RPG and one letter difference on the book names? I really hope that Hasbro and Mongoose have already had this conversation and worked things out.

Bare minimum? A TV/monitor laid flat on the table with the map showing on the display. Use real minis and physically move them. Good for in person play only. But it is a virtual table top.

Why not a possibility of flirtation? It doesn't have to be 10 minutes verbal dialog any more then combat needs to involve the players picking up swords and shields and physically playing out combat, live on the floor. Fred the Fighter says he is flirting with the barmaid. "Make a...

Sorry, disagree. Not all GMs are telepathic. Or good enough to magically change the scene that will somehow fix it for the bothered player without knowing what the problem is. In a hypothetical bar scene, the barmaid has just delivered a platter of steaming meat and sides to the table with...

X-card for audience members, no. IMO, audience members that are bothered by content at a table they are watching should just move on. If I as GM can't ask the x-card playing player what the problem is, how am I supposed to modify things in an acceptable direction, in a noisy room, under time...

Unfortunately, making you put something in a cart to see the price is a somewhat common practice. Some stores will hide behind a "The MFG makes us do this, for reasons" excuse but I really think the stores believe you are more likely to purchase something if you put it in a cart. Its already...

Comment on 'Safety Tools' aka X-Card etc. Such a thing is nice for a casual game at your local FLGS or your house. It becomes far more complicated at a con. People can have over $1000 invested in sitting at your con game table. I have been surprised several times at how far some folks will...

I think we are being railroaded into a thread supposedly about railroading by stating there is no definition for railroading. As far as the riot in town thing, if the GM really wants the party to be involved with the riot, create a positive inducement. A guard offering a "10GP reward for all...

This is from experience running many Star Fleet Battles scenarios years ago but much should be useful for RPGs. 1. Verify from the con folks when/where your table is. Do it early. Do it multiple times. More then once, our table(s) were moved or 'accidentally' dropped from the schedule due to...

Not really a new thing. Folks will often read a computer printout or something on a screen and assume it is correct. "Because computers don't make mistakes." The computer becomes a type of authority figure. AI will probably make this tendency worse because it will seem 'friendly.'

One possible scenario: Generations ago, Lidda's ancestors were forced off their land because <fill in the blank reason>. The had to travel so for that they lost the way back BUT knowledge of certain symbols were retained and passed down by tattoo. Members of LIdda's people are always on the...

From PF1 Core Rulebook p 24 on Half-elves: Elf Blood: Half Elves count as both elf and human for any effect related to race. Entry under Half Orc is the same except sub Orc for Elf. But this may be what got argued in a past game to justify a bonus feat. But in all PF1 games I have been in, only...

<Snicker>. They since changed the rules but I saw a 1200+ point Romulan fleet taken out by a pair of Orion PFs carrying 4 NSMs(Nuclear Space Mines). The PFs screamed in engines doubled and dropped the NSMs right off the nose of a cruiser. The 4 mines blew, the undamaged cruiser blew, the...

The already mentioned Star Fleet Battles was influenced by being limited to the IP in ST-TOS and the animated episodes. Anything after that is forbidden. And by becoming popular while the Cold War was still very much a thing. A lot of the carrier combat stuff in SFB is a proxy for US vs USSR...

I have seen many a photo and drawing of non-European cultures where that was pretty much the normal dress style. Lots of kids have perused National Geographic magazines over the years for the naked natives photos. Not everyone wears heavy armor for combat.

Thanks for the bump. Now on my list of watched coming KS. Always amazed at how many folks claim GURPS is complex as they sit down with 10+ books for their next PF/D&D game so they can sort through 50+ races/species/ancestries, 100+ classes/subclasses , several hundred feats, and skills that...

Given the expressions on faces, I think we are about to answer the question, Can a Bard/Barbarian rage while performing? I think that person under the table may be about to get a face full of Improvised Weapon - High Heel while the dancer performs the Dance of Raging Death.

The tendency to go from simple to complex. D&D started as three 5x7 books in a box. Traveller started as three 5x7 books in a box. Most of us know that both games are now many books of 100+ pages each. Star Fleet Battles started as one 5x7 book in a bag. The latest rule book for SFB is 466...

When there were 10 or less 'classic' classes, iconic characters made sense. Players knew who/what they were and the iconics could be used to identify something. Now that there are a whole horde of classes, subclasses, options and whatnot, iconics lost much of their utility. Not that many...